deadlock

Definitions

ndeadlocka situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible"reached an impasse on the negotiations"

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

deadlockA counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action."Things are at a deadlock .""The Board is much more likely to be at a deadlock of two to two."

deadlockA lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

ndeadlockA lock worked on one side by a handle and on the other side by a key.

ndeadlockA complete stoppage, stand-still, or entanglement; a state of affairs in which further progress or a decision is for the time impossible, as if from an inextricable locking up: as, a dead-lock in a legislature where parties are evenly balanced.

ndeadlockA lock with a key-bolt, but with no latch-bolt, operated by a knob.

ndeadlockA lock in which the key-bolt must be moved by turning the key in each direction: distinguished from a spring lock.

deadlockTo bring to a dead-lock or standstill: as, “they have dead-locked the legislature,”

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Quotations

Jawaharlal Nehru

“Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.”

Usage

In literature:

And so we found the matter had come to a deadlock: more we shall not know.

"In the Tail of the Peacock" by Isabel Savory

Again, coolly, dexterously, he pitted his adroitness, then his sheer strength against hers; and it came again to a deadlock.

"The Gay Rebellion" by Robert W. Chambers

That impulsive reply broke the sullen deadlock.

"The Maids of Paradise" by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

It could end the deadlock.

"The Saracen: The Holy War" by Robert Shea

She had very little feeling about it: only there was a deadlock.

"The Rainbow" by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Here, at any rate, was a basis for an interesting deadlock.

"James Madison" by Sydney Howard Gay

The lull of Wednesday, September 16, 1914, was a foretaste of the deadlock which was gradually forming.

"Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements" by Frank B. Lord and James William Bryan

A deadlock ensued, but in the end the colony triumphed.

"The Fathers of New England" by Charles M. Andrews

Political deadlock was the occasion, rather than the cause, of this acceptance.

"The Fathers of Confederation" by A. H. U. Colquhoun

The result was deadlock.

"The 'Patriotes' of '37" by Alfred D. Decelles

So for a moment they all stood at a deadlock.

"Northern Diamonds" by Frank Lillie Pollock

In the meantime I must above all break the deadlock between myself and The Brain.

"The Brain" by Alexander Blade

Things were at a deadlock.

"Aletta" by Bertram Mitford

There was apparently going to be a deadlock, and John was somehow not sorry.

"Check and Checkmate" by Walter Miller

Already negotiations between the Boers and the British Government were at a deadlock.

"With Rifle and Bayonet" by F.S. Brereton

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In poetry:

And to sanctuary: usurping the armchair
Between tick
And tack of the clock, until we go,
Each skulled-and-crossboned Gulliver
Riddled with ghosts, to lie
Deadlocked with them, taking roots as cradles rock.

"All The Dead Dears" by Sylvia Plath

In news:

Mitt Romney are deadlocked at 50 percent to 50 percent, with 78 percent of returns counted.

In science:

After this additional search reaches a deadlock again, we expand our search space by adding additional 50 randomly generated and minimized solutions to the bank (N = N + 50), and repeat the whole procedure until a termination criterion is satisﬁed.

MOCSA: multiobjective optimization by conformational space annealing

Typically, with G = 300 in this study, MOCSA is terminated before a deadlock occurs with the ﬁnal bank size of N = 50.

MOCSA: multiobjective optimization by conformational space annealing

Further inspection reveals that this is the result of deadlocks, which are artifacts of certain driving rules of the simulation .

Using microsimulation feedback for trip adaptation for realistic traffic in Dallas

The two generic situations leading to deadlocks are shown in Fig. 4.

Using microsimulation feedback for trip adaptation for realistic traffic in Dallas

Both deadlocks could be resolved if drivers would follow their plans less “stubbornly”, i.e., after having unsuccessfully waited for a certain movement for a certain time period, they should just do something else.

Using microsimulation feedback for trip adaptation for realistic traffic in Dallas

Yet, we found it interesting to investigate the effect of re-routing even with a potentially deadlocking microsimulation.

Using microsimulation feedback for trip adaptation for realistic traffic in Dallas

In this paper, the convergence criteria was the vanishing of deadlocks in the microsimulation.

Using microsimulation feedback for trip adaptation for realistic traffic in Dallas

From a conceptual viewpoint, this consistency problem causes a deadlock, since nobody can start planning because she does not know what everybody else is doing.

The dynamics of iterated transportation simulations

Some of these conditions relate to the prohibition of deadlocks, that is, situations involving a group of computational processes in which all processes are blocked waiting for an action to be taken by some process of the very group.